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Old Places in Europe That Confuse Americans... *this can't be real*
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- Published on Mar 14, 2026
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America is not young, the USA is young
They never talk about native American culture
True, America is a continent and everyone should know that.
@AntonioFc3 Don't give him new ideas, he's already expanding into new continents. Let Canada breathe a little.
@Alba-Stelle what i say is that America is actually a whole big continent, and united states is only a country that thinks that owns the world but dont even have a name
CORRECT
9:16 nobody tell him that the Romans already used a form of concrete that would even hold up underwater...
And has lasted centuries.
hehe no that would finally blow his mind...
...and still it is a mystery bcs they had a certain special mineral in it that is probably completely depleted since then, making their concrete superior to most of what we use today. Seemed to be a puzzolan mineral from the Mount Vesuvius volcano. We cant find it anymore.
@kaygeehimself9027 Taken from Google:
The Colosseum was built with durable Roman concrete, a mix of lime, volcanic ash (pozzolana), water, and aggregates like crushed stone, brick, and tuff (volcanic rock). Its extraordinary longevity comes from this pozzolanic mix, particularly the use of quicklime, which allowed for "self-healing" by reacting with water and filling cracks, making it stronger and more resilient than modern concrete.
Was just going to write that, lol!
In my city they wanted to build an underground/metro, but as soon as they started digging they found Roman ruins. Now we have a tram instead🤷♀
Someone definitely had common sense to discard the underground. Are they open for general viewing? The ruins that is, not the trams.
@tonyhaynes9080 They can't legally damage the ruins, so they had no option but to stop. And yes, the ruins are open to visitors. You have to pay for most of it, but some bits are visible from the outside
I‘m from Cologne. This happens all the time here. You can‘t dig deeper than 2m without stumbling upon a WW2 aircraft bomb, or deeper than 4m without stumbling upon some roman ruins or artifacts
I've lived in Toulouse for years and I'm assuming that the same happens in pretty much any major city : dig somewhere, and you'll find ancient ruins.
It only caused delays as unearthing ruins gives 6 months or a year to archeologists to dig for interesting stuff. Once it's done, the ruins are destoyed alltogether and the construction resumes.
@DarkDebo From Extremadura, Spain. Here happens pretty much the same, but with roman and prerroman ruins. It's a pain in the ass for urban planners sometimes.
Dont let him find out about Göbekli Tepe - it would break his mind
Roughly 12 000 years old
Even the underground city system lmao
1. Hominids stood upright (~6 to 4 million years ago)
2. Animal domestication (~15,000 to 10,000 years ago) - We tamed dogs and livestock before cities even existed.
3. Göbekli Tepe (~11,500 years ago) - A stone sanctuary built before the wheel was even invented!
4. Troy (~5,000 to 3,200 years ago) - The glory of the Bronze Age.
5. The Pyramids (~4,500 years ago) - Engineering so perfect they were the tallest structures on Earth for 3,800 years.
6. The Colosseum (~1,950 years ago) - Built when the Pyramids were already 2,600-year-old antiques.
7. U.S. Independence (249 years ago) - In this timeline, this basically happened yesterday afternoon.
"There's another one?"
Yeah. The Colosseum is certainly the most famous one, but there are about 230 preserved Roman amphitheatres around Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East.
Yes! Coliseum just means "big" like where we got the English word colossal 😁
The original and real name of the Colosseum was Amphiteathrum flavium (as built under the Flavian Dynasty) while the new name was in fact a nickname by the colossal statue of Nero (long gone) in front of it.
@friedrichweitzer3071 There's a near perfect one with cells and iron gates leading into the arena in Pula, Croatia. The last time I was there they had a Black Sabath concert there, so it's still in use today, as it was back when it was first built.
Yeah, basically every roman and greek town had an amphitheater. Part of the culture, like every american household has a TV, right? ;-)
They are all over the place the one in Verona is still used for concerts and the opera. There is one in Cartagena southern Spain they are even in England
I have furniture older than America
Sure..."than América ".
@CarloSSMGCyep, it was made in 1672
Older than the USA*, America is a continent and it formed hundreds of millions of years ago
@Dee-r6h8j Well, according to Alfred Wegener and his continental drift theory, America (or the Americas, as per the more recent denomination) is 190 millions of years old, so I can see where @CarloSSMGC is going...
@GioTrev_ he has a rock in the shape of a chair.
American Houses cant stand a single Storm and u ask, where is the Roof of a 5500y old Building? 😂
fr mfs build houses only with wood and nailguns and act surprised xdd
@knxr1404Yes it's called balloons framing. I guess it's meant to get blown away. 😂
@Gonefishing6572
Um. NO. It's NOT called "balloon framing". That construction type has been illegal in the US for a LONG time (massive fire hazard).
I think those flat slabs were part of the collapsed roof, and they're kept there show how the roof could look like.
@fairyspunfibers9098 how many yrs is long for u? 😅
There's a church in my town that was built in the 1300s. It's still fully functional today. And the city I was born in celebrated its 750th anniversary in the 2000s. Heck, there's an oak tree right outside my fence that's older than the USA. 😅
I used to work in a company that was founded in 1755, by two older companies joining up (1580 and 1612). One of my favourite bars is from 1728 and the oldest church around here is from 1180.
I love showing Americans my city, as they just spend days with their minds blown every other minute :)
In the eastern states of the USA, there are some houses that date back to the 18th century. In many German cities, they would be considered new buildings (lol)
Technically some oak trees on the territory of the USA are also older than the USA
There are many old amphitheatres around Europe.
And Africa.
If you ever get the chance to go to a live concert in one be sure to go, they are amazing.
Entertainment hubs of the era, like football stadiums etc today. They re-discovered more than one o high ground recently that had been forgotten at least two were after forest fires. One in Italy in the 2000's iirc and one in Turkey, I believe last year or in the past few years. Wonder how many more are still out there yet to be found lol.
@andrewsansom4798 Yup. The sound is amazing in them. Same for a Play or theatre show.
If not mistaken, there are like 200-ish sites of them and many of them are still in decent if not great shape aswell =)) Have been in one in Tunisia myself (from NE Europe)
13:00 “did they just not have a roof” 😂 it’s 5 thousand years old 😂 the roof fell, it’s a miracle anything is left at all
Yeah, also no not fifty five thousand years old
@picassomanu185 55 hundred
fun fact, in many cases the roofs were intentiionally removed to reduce maintenance costs when houses were abandoned, because the roof falling down could cause more damage than exposure to the elements...
will most likely have been thatch I guess for the roof. Would like to visit there but not been yet.
and if it's made of wood that wood would be gone anyway
People shocked at the ruins in the H&M just don't understand, in historic cities EVERYTHING is built on ancient ruins. Anytime they want to build something in my hometown, they risk digging out an ancient roman street (happened 4 times) or church (twice that i can think of) or just a random house from a 3 digit year. And then building stops, archeologists have to come in, and people need to decide if this random "ancient ruin" pile of rocks is worth preserving visibly (putting glass over it, fences or bringing to museum) or be buried back to be preserved as it has been before that. It's incredibly hard and risky to try to build anything new
Exactly, it's the same in my home town was founded when Caesar was still alive. People never stopped living there for 2000 years. You can not build a new house without finding some Roman ruins, most of the times it's only a few coins, a piece of a lead pipe, amphoraes shreds, there's of course some really cool ruins too.
The MacDonald's in this same street probably has the same stuff in the basement....
I am from a different town in Bulgaria, and my hometown is about 1900 years old. Everywhere you dig, you find medieval or Roman ruins. That's how H&M got there. The building is quite old, but they uncovered the Roman stadium later, after it was already built.
To put the age of the US in perspective, there is evidence that people were cultivating rice in China 9,400 years ago - yes that's nine thousand, four hundred years ago!.
Yeah in my hometown some years ago they digged in the town centre to build an underground parking place and they found the remains of a medieval wall, And this sort of thing happens all the time in the old town.
The „Porta Nigra“ the Black Gate in Trier/Germany is 2000 years old, built by the romans!
dont let bro hear about the pyramids...
What.. those things are real.. I thought it was a cool American thing on the money.
Is what they would say. Lol
Stone henge is older
@joechilds3256dum
Even Cleopatra called the pyramids ancient
Which ones?
That pub's so old even the ghosts are getting haunted
😂😂😂👍
imagine the ghosts' faces when they set up the cursed ship... "wtf is that?!"
😂😂
"Get out, Geraldine, you don't work here anymore!" - one ghost to another, probably
Meanwhile the first ghosts from the beginning are died.
The farmstead is 5500 years old and JT asking "where's the roof at?" 😂
13:05 Seriously? Where's the thatched roof 5500 years later? 🤦♀️
I live in Trier Germany, our City Gate was build in the year 170ad and a church in the city was Build as a Throne room for Emperor Constatine in the year 310ad - still in use
Ach wie schön, noch ein Trierer😂.
Porta Nigra. :D
Beautiful city and the Porta Negra is very impressive, just like the Roman amphitheatre (and the Dom)
Porta Nigra
Ist das nicht sowieso die älteste Stadt in D? (Isn´t Trier the oldes city in Germany?)
" USA? From barbarism to decadence, without the sidestep civilization "
(Clemenceau)
Knossos in Crete, 1900 BC still standing now, the palace also had indoor plumping with cold and hot water 🤪
Visited many years ago
Been there, the original plumbing doesn't work anymore :/
I went there recently
The settlement of Knossos started at 7000BC, the palace of Knossos started around 1900BC.
One of my favourites places I studied at university while studying History, a legendary buildings that still hides a lot of secrets
Wait until the guy hears that naval battles were also held in the Colosseum the underground levels he saw would be closed off and filled with water, and boats would be released into the arena. :D Pam pam paaaam
Funny, Canada is just as young as the US and we learn about this in high school.
The US was founded in 1776 Canada was founded in 1867
@cathyl5888 That’s just because the USA was the rebellious child who moved out at 18 while Canada was the calm child who waited until they were done university in order to get their own place.
@Munchkin.Of.Pern09
😂
@Munchkin.Of.Pern09The US has the mentality of a 2-year-old child, Canada that of an adult. A big hug to the Portuguese community in Canada.
@Munchkin.Of.Pern09 🙂
The reason Americans struggle to understand things older than America lies in how they are taught history. It's almost mythically portrayed as if everything that came before served only to enable the great nation of the USA to emerge. Thus, for many Americans, everything before the USA is merely an insignificant footnote in history, and they cannot grasp its true magnitude.
Also because America was and still is colonized by illegal immigrants and settlers from Europe and has been since the invasion back in 1492!
It is just a lack of education...
Pretty sure it's "grate nation" as they are grating on all our nerves constantly...
@EricJans-m2v Lack of quality of education not quantity.
@kilipaki87oritahitiYou're only an immigrant (let alone illegal 😂) if there's a country to immigrate to. There wasn't any before Europeans created it.
My first thought: Has this guy never had history lessons and only knows the world outside the US from TikTok videos? My second thought: ...must be the case.
He's a US American - to quote another youtuber "If it wasn't for all the school shootings, no one would realise they had Schools in the US"
90% of history lessons in the US are about America's history, most of it highly biased and inaccurate.
@christinemarchitello4481 Just wanted to point that out. Sadly they don't get taught world history.
@AeonSaint Or geography, if their president is anything to go by:
Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Rhode Is-land, Maryland (not his unpaid neice).
JT is a good guy, but the US system of education is odd, basically its a distorted version of history or reality the system ignores. If nations outside of the US are mentioned, its done so as if the US saved the day, one the war or was the best. And if the facts do not make that reality, its gets spun anyhow that it is.
The Yanks won WW2 all by themselves and WW2 did not start in 1939, it started in 1941 when Peal Harbour happened. And frankly this is just the tip of the iceberg in how the American Education System distorts world history. And of course geography is vastly different.
So, Its not JTs fault, their schools seldom teach reality of life outside the US. So, it largely comes as a shock when Americans find out America is not great. And that their systems tend to rip of the public and deny them public services and where money talks about need walks. But perhaps I am biased, thankfully more Americans do learn for themselves, but as only 25% of Americans ever leave the US for travel, it leaves a gapping knowledge of what life outside of it is.
The amphitheatre in Verona, Italy, where the 2026 Winter Olympics closing ceremony was held, was completed in AD30, making it almost 2000 years old.
there's an old saying, people in america think 100 years is a long time, people in england think 100 miles is a long way.
100 miles isn't that long it's about from London to Birmingham or something
I dont think 100 miles is along way. Ive never thought that
well define long way
definitely not walking distance but not too long of a drive 😂
@macky_deez Yep pretty much - not sure where this "old saying" is from but first time I've heard it
I think that must be an American saying as no one here thinks that. Due to the commonwealth and the British starting globalisation we don’t consider that a long distance. 😂
The ruins of an ancient Roman sanctuary are in the basement of a hotel in my hometown. Those ruins are nearly 2000 years old.
De groeten aan Maastricht. Ik logeer daar graag in het Derlon.
4:20 there is actually more than 230 roman amphitheaters in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, not just 2.
Yeah its almost like Rome was an empire and build their sh... everywhere they went
A good shit btw.....still Stands After millennials....😂
@EliaZardin-dv3yuimagine what they could do with our today's technology...
@ChrisAtheist today's technology Is overrated...Remember that There Is no Building that has being built to beat time. The ancient civilizations maybe would use the modern instrument to construct more faster But that's It. In terms of architecrure we never really upgrade, we only decrease the time our buildings needs to stand. Romans, egiptians and greeks would laugh at US because they would't understand why, with this Power we build up shit like this.😂
I'm italian, i'm a former archeologist in Verona in northen Italy...we, here, have roman roads that still support heavy vehicles like buses and trucks and they have still less holes and are less deformated than a modern Road. So....this make think...
Remember that the modern man build for Money. The ancient civ's for being Remember and beat the Power of time.
@EliaZardin-dv3yuthat's because we live in capitalism, a building needs to be constantly maintained, which brings money and people have Jobs
If we don't live in capitalism, buildings would be much better
We have a mall in our town (Mainz, Germany), there is a roman Temple in the basement that you can visit for free.
Mainz was one of the big roman cities by the Rhine River. Thats why every time you dig a hole there in the earth, you’ll find roman artifacts and ruins.
This mall is a nice example of having a bipartisan decision.
One side wanted to have the mall built but the other side wanted to preserve the Roman history.
So they came to the conclusion that they’d just have the (original!!!) temple, some with glass floors, so that you can walk over it, some parts just open and you can see the ruins directly, in the basement of the mall!
I always brag about it when I bring (mostly US) tourists around, that you can have shopping, leisure (there are cafes on the 2nd floor) and learn history at the same time!
Mainz is fascinating ❤
omg I visited Mainz 8 years ago, it was the first trip I did without my parents, and idk what it was but I kept swearing the city was on rails and every day I left my hostel the streets had moved around. I'm from Belgium, so these types of city layouts shouldn't be too foreign to me, but this specific town is just messing with tourists, I'm telling ya - never felt so lost, never had such fun discovering the town
lovely place, absolutely stunning architecture
@yaman@yamanakoyama8682should visit the city either in June, by the 21st, because there we hsve the second biggest festival in the city! The Johannes Fest. It’s because of the Birthday of the famous son (by the way, Man of the Millennium, voted by New York Times) of Mainz! Johannes Gutenberg 😊
Inventor of the printing press. Thanks to him everyone had access to the bible at that time (1450) where normally only cloister and monks who wrote it, could read it.
And of course our biggest festival, the Fastnacht (2027 it will be from Feb 4-9). The carnival were it was, in the former time used to say, the Mainzer people would bring their beds to the pawn shops. First to have money for spending and because second, they don’t need their beds anyway 😅
It’s a big celebration with parades and a lot of party 🎉👯♂️🕺🏻💃🏻👯♀️🍷🥂🍾🍻
I live in the Republic of Ireland, in a farmer's field adjacent to the village I live in are neolithic standing stones, dating back approximately to 3500 BC. there was an archaeological dig there recently which uncovered evidence of habitation, going back at least to that date when the stones were placed their and possibly even earlier. Meaning there has been continuous habitation around the village I live in for at least, 5500 years.
I have been in Newgrange! Actually 40 years ago this summer.
@WeightlessBallast From the air, it's a huge collection of neolithic sites!
Now showing as gentle mounds and circles.
My house was built in 1323. My office was built in 1164.
Vampire flex. :)
If it wasn't in the Domesday book it's a new build, I am 68 first time in a house not in the Domesday book, this is an updated Black house.
If it wasn't in the Domesday book it's a new build, I am 68 first time in a house not in the Domesday book, this is an updated Black house.
@windyfarmer.6095 Houses aren't in Domesday, only settlements.
No te lo crees ni tú 🤣🤣
11:14 here in europ its nearly imposible to build without finding some at least 500 years old ruins when digging for the foundations
I remember when i was a kid, after a big storm wich downed some trees in the middle of town, near my playground, i dug out 100 year old pottery from the roots😅 The new stuff always covers the older.
@Kaos-n5h i once found a cool rock and took it home and after about 8 years i have now found out that the cool rock which is sharp af is acctually an accident blade off an axe back when either the stone age or the Viking Age (i live in Denmark)
Forgot to mention i probs found it on a beach
@tile_cutter Thats about 4000 years of time difference...
@Kaos-n5h im not an historian nor an archioligist
i once rented an apartament for a weekend, found out it survived 2 world wars
Old things have a year ending on "BC".
1180? Pretty young.
1180 BC? Yeah, that's old.
One gets the impression that in the USA only scientists are enthusiastic about ancient historical finds, while here these finds are more a part of history and everyday life.
Knowing that one's birthplace was officially mentioned in 834, that settlement can be traced back to at least the 5th century BC, and much more... Perhaps more Americans would truly appreciate history if this, along with the various settlement patterns of Native Americans, were taught in schools.
1180 is old. BC is ancient, know the difference...
Not compared to the pyramids ...
There is this Company in the Swiss town called Laufen that has a small neolithic Grave (or house? or temple? nobody knows definitely) in the Backyard open to the public. that thing is really really old. it's basically three stone slabs as was walls and one as roof, Flintstones style.
Anything more than a few centuries old is considered old anywhere in the world. You don't have to take on Americans like this just because your pp is small.
That old village in Portugal isn't our oldest one😂😂😂
700 years isn't even that old, even my small village in Germany has been there for 815 years.
@johgu92 my town Lisbon is Bc old not ad 😂😂.
@anamarques5599 So are my neighbour city of Mainz and the somewhat close by city of Trier. 😅
5:08 yes collosum is considered amphitheatre. There were plenty around Roman empire but there aren't so many left.
Se conservan más o menos unos 50 en buen estado.
Unos 60 de tipo galorromano.
Unos 15 en la Península Ibérica.
When I went to Rome, I was so surprised how close the coliseum is to the busy roads and modern structures. You can see the history built around it. It really was amazing.
@kabiecesthx for clarification 😊
C'è anche Verona!
The real name of “Colosseo” is “anfiteatro Flavio”
My hometown was founded in 955.
300 meters from my house is a slavic ringwall nearly 1000 years old, around that they found up to 5000 years old stoneage settlements 🤣
Pretty sure the US would have some things from before its creation if the settlers had not destroyed everything.
They still have some places left. Someday when it's safe to go to the USA I'd like to see Cahokia among other ancient places.
The pre-colonial sites are too embarrassing to be permitted publicity as they indicate a sophisticated set of cultures. Very much in conflict with the 'manifest destiny' bollocks. But very much approved if in Meso-America or South America.
@Cyborg_Octopus It's safe now, mate. If you get your visitors visa (which you'd have had to get at any time before now anyway) you'll be perfectly fine. If you instead go on hols to Canada and sneak over the border to the US, then you'll be in trouble. You know: common sense shit. Also - would be helpful to NOT have a criminal record. They usually don't like criminals going there on holiday, not without extensive checks first - and likely getting refused. If you have a record in other parts of the world, you might well be shit out of luck, but then that's entirely your fault at that point, now isn't it? Don't buy the guff from the screaming heads, mate. Illegals are the ones they're after. Legal visitors or immigrants are absolutely fine.
In England the city of Bath was named by the Romans,,,
It was a Roman bath house, hence I t name ,York city was the first capital city of England,,Nottingham was 11oo !!!😅😅😅😅
nope. Natives had tents so no ruins there. USA is just crap.
The H&M ruin and the 5500 year farmstead are archeological finds. They are not just standing there and people build stores above them obviously. They are found underground (on building sites etc.) then recovered and preserved. Sometime several layers of buliding have been built during the centuries, then destroyed, built over again etc.
7 BGN = 3.59 EUR
Or as I was told by officials “the ones they don’t pour cement over in the middle of the night” as there’s just wayyyyy too many to maintain 🤷♂️😭 sad but understandable
Yeah, there are ruins like that all over the place. There are more near the central post office farther down the pedestrian area, and pretty much everywhere in-between. They started digging for a road slipway across the post office, hit ruins, and it's now a little open-air exhibit.
That's too much info for an American, they have difficulties understanding this. They think we don't care at all about our old ruins and bulldoze everything and make stores and parking lots over them 😂
You can literally walk through Roman ruins at the Serdika metro station in Sofia, Bulgaria.
at 7:12 you see a churge and i those small houses in the saim style use to be houses for non and churge school etc but now good chance people live in them
0:19 to add to this, the village I live in was mentioned in the Domesday Book, which was written in 1086. So I live in a village that is at the very least 940 years old, and even then, it must be quite a bit older still
The place I grew up was mentioned first in 786, but people were already living there... We also have possibly bronze age mounds (not dug), Bell beaker culture burials (early bronze age) and linear ceramic culture (neolithic).
The Americas also have wonderful stuff, people mentioned the cliff houses or the south American and Mesoamerican cultures, and I'm pretty sure there is stuff dating back even longer.
I live in Barcelona which was first settled by the iberians 3rd/2nd century BC
some new findings even date the first tools found here from 4000 to 5000 years ago, so 2000/3000 BC
I live in a Village that here at least since 12th century but probably was a smaller settlement before getting granted rights from the bishophric
I grew up in Stamford Bridge 😅 been a village long before William The Conquerer even arrived. Dark ages they recon around 70AD
Same here, the first recorded mention of the town i live in was 736AD, but there are iron age forts around it so that suggests it has been settled for a few thousand years
Many Roman arenas, theaters, and baths were built, including some in Budapest, as the Roman Empire once stretched to the western bank of the Danube.
"There's another one!?!" Ehmm... no... there's not _just one_ other.
A bunch of roman aqueducts still work ... they need some maintenance every once in a few decades, but ...
There are about 230 Roman amphitheatres still around. The Romans build them everywhere.
And the Colosseum is an amphitheatre. The name comes from the Greek word "kolossos" meaning large or giant.
Stretched from where? You can't just give 1 point for the breadth of an empire.
Britain's Atlantic coast to Mesopotamia in the east, and as far south as North Africa.
the oldest building I ever visited was build somewhere about 170 a.D. It is the "Porta nigra" in Trier, Germany.
In Pula, Croatia the City is filled with Roman buildings so its easy to be in buildings from earlyer times, like the Arena (by Vespasian) or the Temple of Augustus. Nearly the complete old area is roman
Same.
When Romans got my hometown in 79 b.c, the village were several centuries old already.
@davidbm8327Where are u from?
Some Americans would say "Uuh, that's racist. You should call it Porta African-American".
my school is older then the pub in the beginning...
2:28 plot twist: the galleon is made of asbestos or smthn
Plague settles in the dust ;-)
I'm in Wales, surrounded by castles, ancient wells, and Roman ruins, it's no wonder I've always been fascinated by history!
It is more amazing how many people who just don't care even if they are living next to history. But yeah, history is all over Europe. They found a lovely viking bracelet really near to my house and there are signs of them digging up bog iron everywhere here.
@loke6664 I’ve always loved history, I’m just sorry I didn’t talk more to my grandparents about their personal experiences when I had the chance.
@TanyaRando Yeah, me too.
WALES is a country with mountains and sheep. Wells is a city with a cathedral and some ancient streets.
I've been there and I appreciated it.
of celtic origin.
Royal Tunbridge Wells has some rusty water...
Wells is the cathedral city next to Bath. The vicars' street would have held the private residences of the senior priests of the cathedral, and would have been within the cathedral's precinct: in the past not open to the public. In Catholic times the priests were unmarried and would have had their own housekeepers and other servants.
the colosseum was called amphitheatrum Flavium (Flavian Amphitheatre) by the romans
The Caupa’s amphitheatre it was the second largest in the Roman Empire. It’s famous for the rebellion of the gladiators and Spartacus was the leader of them.
Ok, _now_ you've given me a reason to visit there.
@LeafHuntressyou’re welcome. I’m from Rome and if you go to visit Naples. Closer you can find even Pompeii and Herculaneum and take a walk in via Appia the oldest let call it highway of the world.
@Walter.K7
La Vía Apia no es la calzada más antigua del mundo.
La más antigua del mundo es la calzada del yacimiento Canhasan Hoyugu en Turquía, seguida por cualquier calzada del antiguo Egipto y después de estas, la Vía Apia.
@k@kabiecesgot it. I didn’t told the oldest street, but something like our modern highway. It was a horse truck highway from Rome to Brindisi. It was used for commercial and Roman legionaries.
@Walter.K7
No dijiste, " la calle más
antigua ", dijiste literalmente qué " la Vía Apia es la calzada más antigua del mundo" .
La Vía Apia no será la más antigua, pero está considerada cómo la " Reina de las Calzadas" , por su buena conservación y longitud.
That Capua Amphitheatre was where Spartacus trained and started the gladiator revolt. Just in case you've seen the movie, it might be nice to know where it happened about 2000 years ago.
Ooo.the thracian Spartacus. ❤❤❤
How to change the end of a film: "He's Spartacus!" 👉
In Salzburg, Austria their is the Stiftskeller, the oldest inn in europe and the oldest still operating. It even was mentioned in one of Charlemagnes letters and dates to the year 803^^
Do they brew their own beer and is it good? I liked the smoked beer in Heidelberg, Germany. The import version we can get where I live is terrible, though. Actually, most of the beer I drank in Germany and Austria was good. A few I did not like.
And the food is delicious! Been there like a month ago!
Charlemagne leaves a review: 4.5/5 'excellent wine, boar was a bit tough, friendly serving wenches'
@StutleyConstableThe best Beer comes from Czechia though.
I say that without any envy as a german person.
Why I say that? If you interested in typesof beer you probably heard of 'Pilsener' or just 'Pils' before.
These Beer Type is named after it's place of origin. The back then town now city of Pils that just so happens to be in Czechia.
Unlike most people I prefer Alt though. It's not as bitter.
@catriamflockentanz I have had Pilsner beer. I did not know how it got its name, though. Import beers are not the same as they are in the places where they originate, so I doubt what I can get here tastes the same as the beers you've had.
9:40 the sign up the robinet says non-potable water 😂 😂
Fun fact: The oldest story in the history is starting with the: "In thoose ancient days". The shumers are older then China and Egypt.
Jiahu are older than Sumer by 800 years.
My cottage is 450 years old, the walls are 3ft thick stone. The timbers in the roof are 550 year old oak 12" x 8". It has a "bench mark" on the end of one wall, that was put there in 1836 when young Queen Victoria wanted to know how high every hill and mountain was in her kingdom. We have a 700 year old oak tree in the field that is known as the "Wallace Oak" (On my deeds), As William Wallace and his men would hide in the forest under that tree, plotting against the pesky English, when he became an outlaw for killing the Sherif of Lanark (well he deserved it, he raped and killed Wallace's wife). This was the excuse that King Edward1 needed to invade Scotland. This oak tree is still alive, well half of it, as the other half has been hit by lighting sometime in its 700 years.
I thought i was isolated all my life, then i learn about America, and the whole country is isolated from the rest of the world 😂😂😂
Ecco perché non hanno mai avuto guerre a casa loro 😂
Amphitheatrum Campano or Capua amfiteater is the second largest next to colosseum.
7:24 I can hear the horses walking sound on the cobblestone
and smell the smoke from the chimneys on a cold rainy day...
So can I ... oh wait, it just my horses getting out
"You're telling me the ocean wasn't always there" ... It's coastal erosion. Even if the ocean was close at the time, the erosion of the side of the cliffs would eventually get even closer to them.
it's not just that. Sea level was several meters lower 5500 years ago.
That too. Sea level, erosion, all that stuff combined really makes the difference.
tak samo było z Troją - 3 tysiące lat temu była kilka kilometrów od morza teraz jest kilkanaście kilometrów od morza.
@nagranoth_Exactly. That was one of the first things I learned. My dad was a history teacher.
Stone does not get "old", when build decently, a stone building will last for ever.... Termites only eat American "houses".
They are made of wood and cardboard so yeah
A stone building will last until wind and rain erode it away, but that's more of "forever" than humans will see.
@TKiBoule Easliy blown away by a "slight" gust of wind ("Wizard of Oz" style!)
@Benjiesbeenbetter.Actually during the acidic rain times of 70s or 80s or whenever that was due to non existance of devices for industry emission cleaning (removing sulfur and nitrogen species), some greek buildings suffered horribly since the stone they use is really vulnerable to acid.
@hurstiwursti That's right. It was one of the reasons/excuses the British Museum put forward for hanging on to the Elgin marbles, that they would have been irreparably damaged if left whete they were.
Pub from 1189 is quite young, there is restaraunt called Stiftskeller St. Peter in Salzburg, Austria, which is in business at least since 803 when it was first mentioned in record. It has been closed few times throughout its history, but it still is the oldest inn in the world.
Dude, I'm from Barcelona, there is a strech of pre-christian roman wall at the cathedral square, hell I helped excavate a pre-roman hiberian hill-fort for extra credit in high-school! I've pissed in bathrooms older than your country!
Tell a American that Barcelona is famous for the longest period build church. Sagrada Familia! Yeh you know but they don’t. They would be amazed because they build things in two weeks but it’s not that beautiful as Sagrada Familia and that it started in the 1880 and still not finished and we might not see the finished result in our lifetime is crazy
@lillaefraim5895tell thrm about the log that shits presents and watch their reaction, priceless every time
I love the comment: "The bar in my town is older than your country"
the violin I‘m playing is 20 years older than the USA 😂
We have two older than colonization of america and few more older than USA. I seen and worked with furniture older than that ass well
5500 Jahre alte Ruinen... "Where is the roof..." Ernsthaft 😂
Oh man. These are convertible ruins. 🤣🤣
Well, since they were restored, it would've made sense to restore the roof, too.
@CyberChristthey aren’t restored. They were just excavated as they stand. The rooves were wooden, so they perished but the stonework remains as it was.
@Cleow33 I very much doubt that.
@CyberChristThe buildings were not restored. They were just conserved to make them accessible.
Vicars Close feels weird because it is designed to seem like a long walk in one direction, and a short walk in the other direction.
4:00 The "Pregnancy Chair" at Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem pub in Nottingham, is an antique chair that legend claims increases a woman's chance of pregnancy if she sits in it
Had many a drink in that pub. Used to work nearby too so would often have my lunch break around there, or by the canal nearby. Nottingham is also home to one on the longest running annual fairs too, with an official charter from King Edward in 1284? iirc (Longshanks, the king from Braveheart, but it was going on before that. There is another somewhere in the UK that was started back in the early 1100's too.
Going by your name, I'm pretty sure you knew ghat, just putting it here for the 'none locals' lol (I've heard that phrase more times than I've had hot dinners 🤭)
@SilentOneScreaming Got thrown out of there on July 16 1973 - ironically my younger brother's 18th birthday.
Jeśli między kobietą a krzesłem znajdzie się mężczyzna, to może zadziałać :)
We had one of those at the office. Any female member of staff who used it ended up having a kid not long after lol.
@TalesOfWar There was a video ages ago, of a supermarket somewhere that had the same affect supposedly on the women who sat at that till lol.
in the USA there are also ancient Spots:
- Cahokia ( south-western Illinois) a City of the Mississippian culture (800 A.D. to 1600 A:D)
- Cliff Palace (southwestern Colorado) from the Ancestral Puebloans (a.k.a: Anasazi) (1200 A.D. to 1300 A.D)
And i know this places (im an european Guy), i wasn't there but i know them
Properly Native American do y0u not think.
Yeah, I think one the biggest loss of being american is not being able to play next to 12th century castle tower as a kid.
Not morals, manners, or education? It's not being able to play next to a castle.
Explains a lot.
@cutebutevil7387There are American kids who are brought up with those things, and there are British kids who were not.
😂😂😂😂😂
Next to it? I played on it, when we went there in school. 😂
@burannin666 nah the one I had was not in the best of shape, we were not allowed inside.
I did get a school outing where we not only went inside one, but some of us even got to wear chain mail, helmets etc...
The good times.
The Roman amphitheater in Arles in France is still used for events.
They will be digging for Viking graves this summer on the edge of the property where I live (20m from where I'm sitting right now). There are rune stones and plaques to Viking remains nearly every block in this area north of Stockholm
Fun! I also live in Sweden😁🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
"old stuff" looks dam cool,even with modern around them
I was just in a restaurant established in 802 😁
7:15 there is a big historie behind that street and the buildings. There are even people living there.
Theres also Skara Brae in Orkney Scotland which is over 5000 old. It had been covered in sand and was exposed by a storm in late 1880s. The roof was covered in grass as that offered the best weather protection and insulation.
Skara Brae is really worth a visit if you're in Orkney.
Archeologists are digging a very important complex of dwellings a few miles out of Skara Brae, in Ness of Brogar, and it may prove even more spectacular.
Was on Orkney last year and 2024. Skara Brae was mind blowing. After 20 years of excavation the Ness of Brodgar was covered over in August 2024 and it is now returned to nature. The project has moved on the the research phase of the excavation. Some time this year the Time Team TV is making a return visit to the site, so hopefully we'll find out a bit more. There's so much to see like the Standing Stones of Stenness and the Broch of Gurness. Just to add that I am disabled and I was able to see virtually everything I wanted - the accessibility arrangements on Orkney are the best I've come across. If you get the chance to visit, don't miss it.
Archaeologists wondered why each dwelling they uncovered at Skara Brae had a separate room with a drain connecting these - Bronze Age inside toilets!
JT there is plenty of pre-colonial history in America. The USA may only be 250 years old but the continent is way older and you have Indigenous history which goes back 1000s of years.
25-30k years ago yeah
Preclovis cultures were plenty I mean
I heard that the problem with this "indigene" history and culture is that the old culture dont use scripting and dont build citys, so its all known by spoken history tellers. There are no old buildings or books about, like in europe the churches, historic libraries, buildings like in Rome or Athen, or, at the top, the egyptian history. So bec the "indian/native" tribes dont have old things about their culture.
@drhkleinert8241 True that they didn't build much that lasted, and the rest was mostly destroyed by war and industry. But the oral histories preserve some remarkable things. There is one story that recounts a volcano eruption that happened thousands of years ago. And there is still plenty of archeological sites of the ancient cultures, they were just mostly plowed over by farmers and construction that came later. Check out Miniminuteman. He has a a lot of videos about hidden US archeology and historical sites.
@drhkleinert8241there may not be ancient buildings in the US and Canada, but there certainly are in Mexico and many places in South America.
14:30 They mean that the sea has eroded the land. 5500 years ago, that coast was probably tens of miles away. Possibly farther. Depends on geography and geology and other stuff ending with a Y....
There's another Collosseum in Pula, Croatia. They hold concerts there today.
There are many ancient sites in north america, and they will still be there when the skycrapers are gone
The oldest completely standing building in Munich/Bavaria dates back to 1264. For a while, I walked past it daily for work. It's absolutely solid and functional. It's still standing!
And let's not forget the amphitheater in Verona/Italy, built in the 1st century AD. Open-air operas are still performed there today. I've been. Absolutely impressive.
Just about every village or town in England has a parish church that's still in use today
They were all built late 1100s to early 1200s
@dirtbikerman1000💃😊
That makes Munich a young city. They stared building the cathedral in Speyer in 1030, which itself started as a roman fort in 10 BC ...
@nurzumkommentieren5762and Aachen is even older, the older part of the cathedral was the old palace chapel at the turn from the 8th to the 9th century.
@CJ-ni9yb10 BC, not 800 AD. The Romans started a dwelling around 0AD where Aachen is today, so you can add some centuries to its age ;-)
We walked around Rome with our professor years ago. He was (and is still) capable of speaking Latin fluently (he is part of a group that does old Roman meetings and only speak Latin during. They pick a subject beforehand and just philosophise for hours in Latin.. it is kinda insane). He recited a popular speech and a part of a play in front of us in such an Ampitheater (smaller scale than Collosseum). The thing is.. they were built with acoustics in mind. You hear a normal speaking voice on the stage just as good in the back as in the front. They knew what they were doing!
And yes, hearing our professor recite on stage was insane to watch and listen to. It was kinda magical. Other groups stopped talking and also just listened for like 10min.
Wow
14:20 They had a roof for sure, but it was probably made out of straw or wood. Wich does not last 5500 years by the sea😅
And I'd say it's gone from inland to sea side due to erosion.
I went to Pompeii. I spend six hours walking every old street. The feeling when I entered the amphitheater there (at almost the end of the walking) was unbelievable!! It's small, but the atmosphere gives you goosebumps!!
10:53 Relax, dude. It's just a Roman stadium. This is Plovdiv, Bulgaria
11:06 McDonald's down the same street too so you can also get a BigMac
Interesting fact about Capua. Spartacus' rebellion started there. So Spartacus would have been running around the sands there.
We have many villages like that in portugal, and yes drinking from a natural fountain is amazing the water in the summer is soooo refreshing.
Theres a Lidl in Dublin with ancient ruins underneath as well.
"Amphi" means "from all sides" or "everywhere". So these round theaters have seats all around the stage. This is what an amphi-theater is.
Im comparison to a theater, where the stage is on one side and the seat only on one/the opposing site.
Not exactly. Although it can be derived to "around", when strictly speaking theatres, it actually means “two-sided theatre". Same reason why we have the amphibious creatures - most of them can survive without air, but they do need oxygen to stay alive.
There's a lidl on Wood Quay in Dublin that is built on ruins of Viking age Dublin, despite protests in the 80s.
It's alright, we may have the ancient ruins, but at least you have modern ruins.
11:07 there’s a few McDonald’s with Roman ruins too
The thing is that in Europe we have so many levels of history piling up that in France for exemples it is a nightmare to built anything without finding something. So we have specialized archeological agencies that conduct researches before any new buit (road, building etc) start. And depending on the value of the find it can delay the construction.
Same in Germany. I would thing that's probably a standard in many european countries. You dig a hole for a swimming pool and end up finding roman ruins. : )
@auroraborrealis4852
Exactly, where I live it’s totally that 😂
And in UK, check out the route of HS2. Loads of interesting finds.
Same in my hometown. ^^ I once worked for a magazine and in the basement, where we had our archive, were the old medieval town wall partially visible.
@auroraborrealis4852 And that's even skipping the unexploded stuff from WW2.
I used to bath in a roman washhouse 2000 years old next to The Roman Road in a forest near my house during hot summers. Good times, thanks Gaius whoever built it in 140 AD.
thatch roofing usually rots since organic stone does not tend to do such things
9:39 - Not to rain on your parade, but, while you're waxing lyrical about the water, the plaque above the spout discourages drinking it.
My 500 people Village in western Germany is first named in the year 700 (it is probably older it’s just the first time it was named in official documents)
Where I live basically every major building project gets delayed because they discover relics from the end of the Ice Age or from the Viking Age. That stuff can be found EVERYWHERE around here.
I have that too here in Carinthia/Austria🇦🇹
At the "Magdalensberg".
Around here they find items, relics and Stuff all the times .
Also befor Amerika was "found" and all the people where killed with Blankets and illneses
2:40 wait till JT learns what is under Paris 😅
15:20 I've been to the devils pulpit, the water is orange due to iron oxide (rust) in the soil.
Or that is where they make Irn Bru
Isn’t Capua where Spartacus fought
Exactly
Nottingham here, the Trip wasn’t build 1189 that was a marketing trick by one of the former landlords. Still an amazing pub.
The Salutation over the road is older and the Bell in town is the oldest pub in Nottingham … also LOADS of pubs in the UK claim to be the oldest.
I thought it was The Salutation, but I haven't been to Nottingham for over 30 years and wondered if things had changed.
You should check out the catacombs underneath Utrecht, the Netherlands